Anniversary

It is so hard to believe, but today marks the one year anniversary of me writing this blog. Huge news, I know. Incredible that it has continued on this long. A reason to truly celebrate. Yes, amazing stuff. There is this sense of real accomplishment in having made it this far.

Other than that, not too much going on. Emmett is nearly walking it seems (his grandma (A's mom), who is here visiting with his grandpa, says that he took a step today while I was at work. I am not buying it as it sounds like there was still hand contact). Oh yeah, yesterday was Emmett's birthday. That is about it.

Who am I kidding...the big news is that Emmett did turn one yesterday and the blog is not any news at all (although today really is its inception anniversary). Yesterday a number of his closest adult friends came over to eat burritos, cake and ice cream. Emmett only had the cake (carrot---again), but everyone else had the burritos, apple cake, and salted caramel ice cream (Emmett had the best cake...the other wasn't spectacular and the ice cream was a bit of a miss with the ice cream freezer hardening method not hardening the ice cream). Emmett was the recipient of a number of gifts, primarily books (always a great gift), and is watching as his library grows. I am quite confident that Emmett will not remember his big day, especially as his primary birthday celebration was an 2.5-hour morning nap. It was a nice feeling for Andrea and I, though, to know that we made it through a whole year without dropping him too badly, lopping off one of his arms with a weed wacker, or any other mishap that we were confident was going to occur due to some mistake or another.

Anyway, this is a short post to say that we have all survived into Emmett's second year and we are all happy. I can't write much as we have guests still, but Andrea and I are feeling fortunate that we ended up with this Emmett kid and he seems to be taking to us, so we will continue on happily in this configuration.